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APPLETON' BUTTON.

No. 370,441. Patented Sept. 27, 1887.,

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-; NITED STATES PAT NT WILLIAM APPLETON, OF ATTLEBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO I HORTON, ANGELL & 00., OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 370,441, dated September 27, 1887.

Application filed July 2, 1887. Serial No. 243,220. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known'that 1, WILLIAM APPLETON, -of Attleborough, Bristol county, State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful 5 Improvement in Buttons or Studs; and I do hereby declare the following specification, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same, to be a description thereof. r

[ This invention relates to a buttonor stud having a post portion which is adapted to remain stationary in the button-holes, a shoe portion which is arranged to slide laterally on said post, and a head which is capable of be 15 ing turned to move the shoe and cause it to assume positions eccentric to the head, that the button or stud may be the more easily applied and removed, and concentric with the head, that the article may be securely retained 0 in position.

Theimp rovement consistsin certain features of construction and arrangement, hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 2 represents a sleeve-button embodying the invention, with the shoe in a position eccentric to the head. Fig. 2 shows a similar view with theshoe concentric with the head. Fig. 3 represents a central vertical section on line 2 z,

0 Figs. 4 and 6. Fig. 4 shows a rear view of the button with the shoe shell or covering removed. Figs. 5 and 6 show, respectively, horizontal sections on lines :0 x and y 3 Figs. 1 and 2. Figs. 7, 8, and 9 show details ofthe 3 5 shoe. Fig. 10 represents the stem and its plate, which are secured to the button-head to produce the movements of the shoe. Fig. 11

shows the post portion in perspective. Fig.

12 shows in plan a modification of the means for locking the shoe in position.

A is the button-head, which may be of any preferred form, design, or material.

B is the shoe of the button, and Ois the post portion, which is to remain stationary inthe 4 5 button-holes when the shoe is slid by a partial rotation of the head A.

To the head A a stem, 2, is secured, which bears at its free end a plate, 3, of circular form, the stem being attached to the plate near the edge of the latter'or e entric thereto, as shown in Figs. 3, 5, and 6. The shoe B is mainly composed of a plate, 4., a plate, 5, and a shell or covering, 6. The plate 4 has a circular opening, 7, of the same diameter as the plate 3,forwhichitformsaperiphericalbearing; and said plate is cut away at 8 and 9 to accommodate the fastening device, as shown in Figs. 4 and 7. The plate 5 has an opening,-10, of smaller diameter than the opening 7 in the plate 4, as shown in Figs. 8 and 9. The plate 5 is also provided withtwo lugs or guides,11 11, arranged parallel with each other, as shown by full lines in Figs. 5 and 6 and by dotted lines'in Figs. 8 and 9. The post 0 is in the form of a flattened tube, which surrounds and hides the stem 2, and its lower end is fitted between the guides 11, said end being preferably notched at 12, if the edges of the post be rounded, as shown in Fig. 11,.or otherwise arranged to prevent the shoe from turning on the post by the engagement of the latter with the guides 11. For locking the shoe in its two positions, the plate 3 is preferably notched at 13, and a block, 14, located in the opening 8,

is pressed by a spring, 15, located in the open- 7 5 ing 9, against the edge of the plate 3 and into the notches 13, when they present themselves, thereby holding the shoe in the two positions shown in Figs. 5' and 6.

In assembling the parts the plates 4 and 5 are So secured to eachother, and the stem 2 is passed through the openings 7 and 10, so that the plate 3 shall occupy the opening 7, the said plate 3 resting on the ledge 16, Fig. 9, formed by that portion of the plate 5 which surrounds 8 5 the hole 10. The locking-block 14 and spring 15 are then placed in position, and the shell 6 is secured to the platesat and 5 by turning the edges of the shell over upon the plate 5, as shown in Fig. 3. If the shell 6 be rounded on its back, a plate, 17, is preferably interposed between the shell and the plate 4, as shown in Fig. 3, the better to hold the plate 3 in the opening 7. The hollow post 0 is now passed over the stem 2, and the lower end of the post 9 5 is inserted between the guides 11, and the up per end of the stem is secured to the buttonhead.

When the shoe B is in a position eccentric to the post 0, as in Figs. 1 and 5, the button can :00

. be easily applied and removed, as will be readily understood. By turning the head in either direction for half a revolution its attached stem 2 and the plate 3 will be rotated, the stem passing in asemicircular path from the position shown in Fig. 5 to that shown in Fig. 6. As the post 0 is held stationary by the button-holes, and the guides 11 by engagement with the post prevent the shoe from turning thereon, the shoe will be slid laterally from -the eccentric position shown in Figs. 1 and 5 to the central position shown in Figs. 2 and 6,

of a block, 14:, and spring 15, as already described, the opening maybe bent, as shown in Fig. 12, to engage the plate 3, and the block 14 be dispensed with.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

.1. Thecombination, with the head provided with an attached stem having a circular plate secured eccentrically thereto, of a shoe furnished with a bearing fitting the stem-plate peripherally, an oblong post surrounding the stem, guides on the shoe, on which the lower end of the post is mounted and on which the shoe is adapted to slide with relation to the post when the head is turned, as described, and means, substantially as described, located in the shoe for locking the same in position,

substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the head having a stem, 2, attached thereto and provided with a circular plate, '3, having notches 13, of a shoe having a plate, 4, cut away at 8 and 9 and furnished with an opening, 7, fitting the plate 3, a plate, 5, having an opening, 10, and guides 11, the flattened tubular post G, surrounding the stem and fitted to the guides, and the look ing-block 14 and spring 15, located'in the shoe,

' substantially as and for the purposes specified.

WILLIAM APPLETON.

Witnesses:

JOHN T. BATES, NELLIE A. Ooornn. 

